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George Santayana (1863-1952): All Quotations: |
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
George Santayana (1863-1952) - Reason in Religion
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
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